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(Amendment  l  to  r>.  A.  I.  Order  HM.) 

United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 

BUREAU  OF  ANIMAL  INDUSTRY. 


AMENDMENT  1  TO  B.  A.  I.  ORDER  2S7— TO  PREVENT  THE  SPREAD 
OF  FOOT  AND  MOUTH  DISEASE  IN  CATTLE,  SHEEP,  OTHER  RUMI- 
NANTS. AND  SWINE,  EXTENDING  THE  QUARANTINE  TO  INCLUDE 
THE  COUNTIES  OF  MARIN,  NAPA,  SAN  MATEO,  SAN  JOAQUIN, 
SANTA  CLARA,  AND  SONOMA. 

Effective  on  and  after  February  85,  1924- 


United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 

Office  of  the  Secretary. 
Washington,  D.  C,  February  25,  192  b. 
The  fact  has  been  determined  by  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture, 
and  notice  is  hereby  given,  that  a  contagious  and  communicable  dis- 
ease known  as  foot-and-mouth  disease  exists  in  livestock  in  the 
State  of  California  in  an  area  not  covered  bv  the  quarantine  estab- 
lished by  B.  A.  I.  Order  287  dated  February  23,  1924,  and  effective 
on  and  after  that  date. 

Now,  therefore,  I,  Henry  C.  Wallace,  Secretary  of  Agriculture, 
under  authority  conferred  by  section  1  of  the  act  of  Congress 
approved  March  3,  1905  (33  Stat.  1264),  do  hereby  quarantine  the 
counties  of  Marin,  Napa,  San  Mateo,  San  Joaquin,  Santa  Clara,  and 
Sonoma,  in  the  State  of  California,  and  do  hereby  amend  said 
B.  A.  I.  Order  287  by  adding  the  aforementioned  counties  to  the 
quarantined  area  established  in  said  order. 

It  is  further  ordered  by  this  amendment  to  B.  A.  I.  Order  287, 
under  the  authority  and  discretion  conferred  on  the  Secretary  of 
Agriculture  by  section  3  of  the  act  of  Congress  approved  March  3. 
1905  (33  Stat.  1264).  and  section  2  of  the  act  of  Congress  approved 
February  2,  1903  (32  Stat.  791),  that  the  interstate  or  foreign  move- 
ment of  cattle,  sheep,  and  other  ruminants,  and  swine,  from,  into,  or 
through  said  quarantined  counties,  and  the  interstate  or  foreign 
shipments  of  the  dressed  carcasses  of  calves,  sheep,  and  other  rumi- 
nants, and  of  the  hides,  skins,  and  hoofs  of  cattle,  sheep,  and  other 
ruminants,  and  of  all  hay.  straw,  or  similar  fodder  from  any  point 
in  the  said  mentioned  quarantined  counties  shall  be  made  only  in 
accordance  with  and  subject  in  all  respects  to  the  conditions,  require- 
ments, and  restrictions  of  said  B.  A.  I.  Order  287. 

This    amendment,   which,    for   the    purpose    of    identification,   is 
designated  as  Amendment  1  to  B.  A.  I.  Order  287,  shall  become  and 
he  effective  on  and  after  February  25,  1924. 

Done  at  Washington  this  25th  (lay  of  February.  L924. 
Witness  my  hand  and  the  seal  of  the  Department  of 
Agriculture. 

Henry  C.  Wallace, 

Secretary  of  Agriculture. 


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